More Humor: George Bush, Climate Activist
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A polar bear walks into a bar and says, “When are you going to take action on global warming?”
The bartender, President Bush, says, “If you wait until the very end of my term, maybe we’ll set a goal for 2050. By the way, we don’t get many polar bears in here.”
The bear says, “And with these policies, you won’t be getting many more!” [Ba-dum-bum-CHING! Rimshot — okay, technically a “sting” for all you Wikipedia nerds!]
Seriously, though, the president who invented the double-U turn on climate — who has been blocking real international goal-setting — said today,
Ever the straight man, he said, “It’s important to ensure that we get results….” And finally, he said,
Last week, the Department of Energy announced that in 2006, our carbon emissions decreased by 1.3 percent while our economy grew by 3.3 percent. This experience shows that a strong and growing economy can deliver both a better life for its people and a cleaner environment at the same time.
He coyly only took implicit, not explicit, credit for this, but either way it is bunk or dumb luck, take your pick.
The Center for American Progress’s Dan Weiss has more comments on Bush’s do nothing policies here.
UPDATE: For a recent post on the “stunning” loss of Arctic sea ice, go here.
Here are two posts that answer the question Will polar bears go extinct by 2030? — Part I and Part II.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
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November 15th, 2007 at 3:43 am
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December 14th, 2007 at 4:55 am
I read that George Bush is indifferent to global warming; he just doesn’t care. And apparently Bush is focused more on Cheney’s interests in the energy industry. Probably both Bush and Cheney will ignore global warming… they don’t want to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists will be angry at them, but then again much of the American public doesn’t care about climate change.
Myself, I can’t decide… depends whether global warming disasters will happen soon, or in 20 years or 100 years… who knows…
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January 6th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Why is this in your ‘most popular’?
January 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am
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January 16th, 2008 at 8:44 am
This thread is funnier
http://climateprogress.org/ 2007/ 08/ 06/ did-climate-change-contribute-to-the-minneapolis-bridge-collapse/
January 28th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Do polar bears really have blue tongues?
February 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I love polar bears they are so cute
February 8th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
HI I LOVE POLAR BEARS THEY ARE SO CUTE AND AT MY SCHOOL WE ARE HELPING STOP GLOBAL WARMING DON’T YOU THINK THAT IS ASOME? BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I LOVE POLAR BEARS THEY ARE SO CUTE AND AT MY SCHOOL ME AND MY FRIENDS WE ARE TRYING TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!BYE
February 8th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
polar bears are fat!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
polar bears are fat!no afence to them
February 9th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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February 9th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I love poler bears we are lrneing about thm
February 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Polar Bears Own
They r awesome
but r their tonuges seruiously blue??
February 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Polar bears are the best animals on earth! When I`m older I want to go to the Arctic to see polar bears and help them! I am also going to go the
Arctic because I want to captrer seals and feed them to the polar bears.
I would like to know if they really have blue tongs? I love polar bears!
February 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I need facts of polar bear . can you help me?
February 21st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Polar bears r awsome! I think it’s sad that they might get extinct.
I am going to try to help as much as posible.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
i love them they r really cute and big
and i love this picture especially becuz it shouws how funny bears can be
April 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I understand that global warming is expected to decrease the severity of bi-polar complications in those living in upper Canada.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
they are so cute and FUNNY
April 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Yup, polar bears really do have purple tongues. Asian bears are the only mammals that do have purple (instead of pink) tongues - as much a peculiarity of the mongolian-tibetan area as marsupials are to Australia. And, as ‘proof’ of continental drift, you may often notice a lot of North American Grizzlies still have purple spotted tongues too!
April 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I LOVE POLAR BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THEM BECOMING EXTINCT IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY. THEY ARE AMAZING AND DESERVE TO BE TREATED BETTER! I LOVE THEM AND I AM GOING TO SAVE THEM!
PEACE OUT HOMIES
PEACE OUT POLAR BEARS TOO!!!!!!!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
the poler bears are so wonderful and pretty
May 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
poler bears are loseing homes that is why i want to save them.My friends and i are in a club to save animals and i wanted to save the poler bears.I think you and your friends should do it to.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I would hate to see them go.